A 68-year-old man was found murdered at his house in North Goa’s Candolim early Sunday morning. The police identified the victim as Arnaldo Joseph Soares, a native of Goa who held a Canadian passport and had been living in the state for the last eight years at Orda Waddo.
According to the police, an unidentified man trespassed into Soares’s house from the roof and murdered him after an alleged confrontation around 2.30 am. The motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained, said the police, adding that they are probing the crime from all angles, including a property-related dispute.
Three relatives of the victim were in another section of the house at the time of the incident, said the police. The relatives — two women and a man — told the police that they heard some commotion in Soares’s room and knocked on his door to check, but he “reassured them that everything was fine”. “According to the relatives, they assumed that a friend was visiting Soares and there was no reason for alarm. They claim someone from inside the room said ‘everything is fine’,” said a police officer.
The police recovered an audio recording from a camera in the vicinity of house in which the “victim’s screams” could allegedly be heard for over 3 minutes. Some tiles on the roof of house were found removed, suggesting that the accused entered from the roof and came down using a rope, the police said.
The victim had injuries on his head and face, inflicted with a sharp object, police said. “Blood marks have been found on a glass. The accused escaped in the victim’s car, which was found abandoned near a helipad some kilometres away,” said a police officer.
Around noon on Sunday, when there was no response from the victim’s room, a relative called his niece to check. She found his body, said the police, adding that the murder was reported at 1.58 pm.
The police said a case of murder has been registered at Calangute police station. “There was an ongoing dispute in the family over property. The victim was unmarried,” the police officer said.In a statement, SP, North Goa, Akshat Kaushal said, “A case under sections 332 (b), 309 (6), 103 of BNS, 2023 has been registered.”
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